Ways To Kill Bed Bugs
Bed bugs used to be big problems back in the old days and hence the popular phrase, ?do not like the bed bugs bite?, was coined. However, in the 50s, bed bugs were just about wiped out with the use of DDT. When DDT was banned, bed bugs made a resurgence.
Also, frequent international travel has brought bed bugs into the U.S. from other countries. Hotels across the U.S. no matter whether it is a 1 star or a 5 star hotel, have infestations of bed bugs.
Bed bugs hide just about anywhere they want, as long as they can not be found. Some examples of hiding places are in your clothes, on your mattress, in between cracks of your walls, and under your furniture.
When night falls and you are sleeping, bed bugs come out and feed on you. You will not feel the bite when they are feeding because they excrete an enzyme into your body similar to that of a mosquito.
If you want to kill bed bugs, then you would need to be able to find all the places where the bed bugs are hiding. If you left one bed bug alive, they could still mass produce.
To kill of the bed bugs in your mattress, you may want to buy a mattress encasement. This encasement closes off your mattress to the rest of the world and thereby traps the bed bugs inside. Doing this eventually starves that bed bugs to death but it could take at least 6 months.
After killing the bed bugs on your mattress, look elsewhere around your room. Any place that seems like a good hiding spot you should check it out.
If you feel that you cannot find all the places where bed bugs hide, you might want to call up a professional exterminator. They have the resources and knowledge to kill bed bugs.
Henry has been a professional exterminator for many years. For further information on how to kill bed bugs, please go to his website.
DDT stopped working on bedbugs before 1960. It was better sanitation all around — and maybe some good fortune in bedbug predators that we didn’t notice at the time — that got the bedbugs on the run.
Exterminators stopped using DDT on bedbugs in the 1950s. DDT was banned for most uses in the U.S. in 1972. Bedbugs started a “surge” in about 2005. That’s too long for any sort of post hoc ergo propter hoc claims that DDT’s ban caused the resurgence.
And, by the way, most of the populations of bedbugs coming back are quite immune to DDT. DDT couldn’t have kept them in check.